MARION TRUE’S LETTER TO GETTY ENTERED AS EVIDENCE IN TRIAL

In a move that seemed to gratify prosecutors, lawyers for Marion True, a former curator of antiquities at the Getty Museum, asked that the court admit as evidence a letter in which the curator railed against her former employer, Elisabetta Povoledo reports for the New York Times. In the December 18 letter to three Getty officials, True accused the Getty’s trust of having left her to “carry the burden” of the institution’s collecting practices, even though her superiors at the museum and the trust had “approved all of the acquisitions made during my tenure.” Her letter—addressed to Deborah Marrow, then the Getty Trust’s acting chief executive; Michael Brand, the museum’s director; and Ron Hartwig, the trust’s spokesman—also faulted the museum for a “lack of courage and integrity.”